Unity: Making Stuff Happen

So I don't really have a design document. But I do have a feature list - a collection of bits and pieces I want to learn to create before I go about designing the game. You can't build the house until you have the tools, right?

Here's where I'm currently at:

• Custom editor gizmos for invisible nodes such as locators, spawnpoints, etc. (done)
• 2D platformer-style character movement (done)
• Smooth follow-camera movement (done)
• Portals that teleport the player to a new location (done)
• Linked portals (done)
• Portals that can be activated via contact, or by the player pushing up/down (done)
• Simple camera effects such as fading to black (done)
• Layered camera transforms for additional movement effects such as screen-shake (done) 
• Scripted sequences (done - coroutines freaking ROCK!)
• Simple pickups
• Complex pickups that cause a temporary effect or event
• Moving platforms
• Portals working between levels

This effort represents about 8 hours of work. My hope is to have the pickups, moving platforms, and inter-level portals working within the next 8 hours (of active Unity time, not real time). I'll try to keep posting updates either at qualifiable milestones, or time-based intervals.

Future updates will include:

• Player health
• Environmental hazards, such as spikes and lava
• Simple enemies
• The ability to attack and kill enemies
• More complex enemy behaviours
• And more!

It's all so exciting! I'll try to figure out syntax highlighting for C# in blogger (I tried earlier and failed miserably) and then I can post my code stuff, for anyone who cares.

And here is a playable 'demo'. Not much happening, but everything starts somewhere!

Note: The playable demo has been moved to its own post. CLICK HERE TO PLAY.

I've never been happier to be a nerd :)